I VISITED CLONSILLA AND PHOTOGRAPHED AN OLD CHURCH AND LIDL
Lidl arrived in Ireland in 2000 and now have 202 outlets.
Like fellow German supermarket Aldi, Lidl has a zero waste, no-frills, “pass-the-savings-to-the-consumer” approach of displaying most products in their original delivery cartons, allowing the customers to take the product directly from the carton. When the carton is empty, it is simply replaced with a full one. Staffing is minimal.
In contrast to Aldi, there are generally more branded products offered. Lidl distributes many low-priced gourmet foods by producing each of them in a single European Union country for its whole worldwide chain, but it also sources many local products from the country where the store is located. Like Aldi, Lidl has special weekly offers, and its stock of non-food items often changes with time.
ST MARY’S CHURCH OF IRELAND CHURCH – MY FIRST EVER VISIT
The church in my photographs was built in 1846, however the land it sits on a religious site going back to 500 AD.
The cemetery has graves dating back to the 1600s.
I visited this churchyard twice in two days as I wanted to compare two camera body-lens combinations. This session I used a Sony A7RIV with a Sony 28-135 lens [an expensive lens] and the following day I used a Canon 1Ds MkIII with a Sigma 24-105mm lens [the Canon body is very old but the lens is new]. Other than the fact that the Sony 28-135 lens is very heavy I have decided that the Sony combination is my preferred option however the Canon was better than I had expected and I like using it even though I only have three suitable lenses.
Back in the day I had lunch at least once a week in Maynooth and I was often joined by a friend or two. Today I decided to practice for the future by having a large beer at the Roost [outside of course]. The staff were not a hundred precent sure that they will get to get the go-ahead to reopen on Monday but will be very disappointed if they don’t.
The Roost is a large public house with separate bars, a public bar, lounge area, mezzanine bar and a music bar.
ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE CAMPUS – NO STUDENTS TO BE SEEN
Maynooth University consists of two connected campuses: an older southern campus, with 19th-century buildings, shared with St Patrick’s College, and, across a public road, a modern northern campus.
Maynooth University was formally established as an autonomous university as recently as 1997, yet traces its origins to the foundation of the Royal College of St. Patrick in 1795, making it, simultaneously, Ireland’s youngest university and one of its oldest educational institutions.
Maynooth has an international reputation for research in humanities; social and spatial sciences; mathematics, communication and computation; and human health.
In the 1990s the EU kindly organised and paid for me to undertake a post-grad in “UNIX – Core Kernel” and I was a bit surprised that I had to travel all the way to St. Patrick’s College in Maynooth every day for the duration of the course. At the time I did not understand the distinction between Maynooth University and St. Patrick’s College and am still a bit confused.
I was the only person from Ireland on the course and I met some very interesting people from Europe, Africa and Asia and the professor in charge was from China. The tutors were from Ireland and Britain. So, it was a bit sad to see the campus devoid of students because of Covid-19.
BUS STOP AT ST MARY’S CHRUCH (SIC) IN MAYNOOTH – DID ANYONE NOTICE THE TYPO?
St Mary’s Church Maynooth was built between 1835 and 1840.
Saint Mary’s Church is an important building of many periods that successfully merges true medieval fabric in a nineteenth-century Gothic Revivalist design. Containing fabric dating to the mid thirteenth century, the church is of considerable historical and archaeological significance, representing a long-standing presence – both ecclesiastical and fortified – on the site. The church is also of social importance as the ecclesiastical centre for the Church of Ireland community in the locality.
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